Devon Brooks

Off the Court

CSUN alumni, as Devon Brooks tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Judy Bacamuralist, Great Wall of Los Angeles

  Judy Baca, two CSUN degrees, painted the Great Wall of Los Angeles with more than four hundred young people, artists and scholars over seven summers. Half a mile of mural. That's a Matador thinking big.

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• Mark! LopezGoldman Environmental Prize winner

  Mark Lopez, CSUN alum and activist, won the Goldman Environmental Prize. And yes, he spells his first name with an exclamation point. He earned it.

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• Stephen BollenbachHilton CEO, Trump Organization CFO

  Stephen Bollenbach took a CSUN master's in management and became the very first chief financial officer of the Trump Organization in nineteen ninety. Later he sold Hilton to Blackstone for twenty six billion dollars. Management, sure. We'll call it that.

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• Diane Warrenhit songwriter

  Diane Warren, Matador, has a Grammy, an Emmy and a Golden Globe on the shelf. The Valley writes the hits, everybody else just sings along.

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